How can governments, investors, and entrepreneurs collaborate to ensure that promising climate-focused social enterprises succeed past the pilot phase?

Please join the Environment and Natural Resources Program for "Mobilizing Partnerships to Meet Global Climate and Sustainable Development Goals," a panel discussion on scaling up finance opportunities for agriculture, food security, and climate adaptation efforts in developing countries. 

The panel will feature Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, CEO and Founder of ColdHubs Limited, the winner of the 2022 Roy Award for Environmental Partnership; Romi Bhatia, Senior Finance and Investment Advisor for USAID's Africa Bureau; and Morgan Richmond, Senior Analyst at Climate Policy Initiative's Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. Akash Deep, Senior Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.

Registration: This is a hybrid event. Members of the Harvard community and the public are welcome to attend in-person or virtually using the registration links below.

Media: While this event is on the record, the organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

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Please join the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) for a seminar on "Circular Economy for Sustainable Development: The Role of Land, Fuels, and Manufacturing," featuring Francis X. Johnson, Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), and Henrique Pacini, Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Following introductory remarks by ENRP Director Henry Lee, Dr. Johnson will discuss governing land and biomass use for a climate-compatible bioeconomy, and Dr. Pacini will discuss governing materials and pollution pathways.

This event is part of the SDG Series, a series of events on the UN Sustainable Development Goals started in 2017 and organized by a group of fellows at ENRP. Alexandre Strapasson, Belfer Center Fellow in Agriculture and Energy Policy, and Amanda Sardonis, ENRP Associate Director, will moderate the discussion. Light refreshments will be served.

Attendance: In-person attendance is limited to Harvard ID holders. Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Registration: Please RSVP at the link below. Registration will remain open until the event begins.

Is environmental justice finally getting more coverage, as media outlets address the disproportionate impact of serious environmental problems on communities of color, the poor and the marginalized?

Three leading journalists will discuss the challenges ahead in covering environmental and climate justice in the United States and around the globe: Somini Sengupta of The New York Times; Justin Worland of Time Magazine;  and Yessenia Funes of Atmos Magazine. Cristine Russell, ENRP Senior Fellow, will moderate.

While air, water, and toxic pollution hit vulnerable populations hardest, climate change will make the inequities even worse. The Biden Administration has promised to make environmental justice a key element of its sweeping federal climate agenda.

Environmental and climate justice reporting ranges from the polluted water of Flint, Michigan to the dirty air of New Delhi, bringing in-depth stories of the people most adversely impacted by where they live and work. Climate change, from extreme heat to increased flooding, will affect communities—and countries—least prepared to deal with the consequences.  The Black Lives Matter protests and COVID-19 pandemic have also been linked with concerns about environmental justice in terms of those populations at greatest health risk.

HKS Co-Sponsors: Belfer Center Environment & Natural Resources Program & Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Climate, Energy & Environment PIC (CEE-PIC): A student organization at HKS

Join us for "Adaptive Leadership and Climate Action," a conversation with two HKS alums working to solve the climate crisis – in Brazil and the United States. Natalie Unterstell is a climate change policy and negotiations expert working to save the Amazon, while Camila Thorndike is a climate organizer and National Director of Advocacy for Climate XChange. This event will be moderated by Rand Wentworth, Louis Bacon Senior Fellow in Environmental Leadership and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Sponsors: Environment and Natural Resources Program; Center for Public Leadership; Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment

Note: While this virtual event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization.

In his first days in office, President Joe Biden put the global climate crisis on the country’s front burner, rejoining the Paris Accord and mobilizing his administration to tackle climate change at every level.

Two of the most experienced and respected national reporters in Washington D.C. will provide an inside look at how dramatically the climate beat has changed, contrasting the start of the Biden era with the challenges of covering the anti-climate agenda of the Trump Administration.  The panel will feature Juliet Eilperin, Senior National Affairs Reporter at the The Washington Post and Lisa Friedman, Climate Reporter at The New York Times. Science journalist Cristine Russell, ENRP Senior Fellow, will moderate.

Co-Sponsors: Environment & Natural Resources Program; Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy; Climate, Energy & Environment PIC (CEE-PIC): A student organization at HKS

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Join us for a conversation about the challenges facing coastal cities due to the effects of climate change. We will discuss adaptation strategies and resilience efforts across sectors and opportunities for community engagement.